Biology:Plebejus loewii
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| Plebejus loewii Zeller, 1847 [1]
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Plebejus loewii is a butterfly found in the East Palearctic (Asia Minor, Kurdistan, Caucaus, Middle East, Iran , Turkestan ) that belongs to the blues family.
Taxonomy
Plebejus loewii is in subgenus Plebejidea.
Subspecies
- P. l. loewii Armenia (highland)
- P. l. uranicola (Walker, 1870) Transjordan
- P. l. antilibanotica (Hemming, 1929) Lebanon
- P. l. dzhemagati (Sheljuzhko, 1934) Caucasus Major
- P. l. schwingenschussi (Pfeiffer, 1937) Talysh Mountains
- P. l. hissarica (Shchetkin, 1963) Ghissar
- P. l. afghana (Howarth & Povolný, 1976) Afghanistan
- P. l. battenfeldi (Rose & Schurian, 1977) Iran
- P. l. hofmanni (Rose & Schurian, 1977) Iran
Description from Seitz
L. loewii Z. (= empyrea Frr.) (78 i). Has the appearance of a small form of the preced ing [L. aliardii] ; male above very vividly glossy blue, almost as in bellargus but darker; the female above brown with yellowish red spots in the anal area of the hindwing. Underside with an abundance of ocelli, behind the red submarginal band of the hindwing there are metallic dots. Asia Minor, Armenia, Persia and Turkestan. — The large form gigas Stgr. (78 i, k), from Syria, resembles especially lycidas but the ocelli of the hindwing beneath are larger and placed closer together; moreover, the characteristic intense blue gloss, which no other Blue has in the same tint, is as strong in gigas as in true loewii. — But another form, which flies at Sharud and in Baluchistan and agrees in size with true loewii, is said to be paler violet-blue and has been named chamanica Moore [now full species]. In May and June, locally plentiful.[2]
Biology
The larva feeds on Astragalus - A. spinosus, A. sieberi, A. schahrudensis
See also
- List of butterflies of Russia
References
- ↑ Zeller, 1847 Verzeichnis der vom Professor Dr. Loew in der Türkei und Asien gesammelten Lepidoptera Isis von Oken 1847 (1) : 3-39
- ↑ Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren)
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Wikidata ☰ Q13432944 entry
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